Professional Scribes? Identifying English Scribes Who Had a Hand in More Than One Manuscript

Author / Editor
Mooney, Linne R.

Title
Professional Scribes? Identifying English Scribes Who Had a Hand in More Than One Manuscript

Published
Derek Pearsall, ed. New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference (York; and Rochester, N.Y.: York Medieval Press, in association with Boydell and Brewer, 2000), pp. 131-41.

Description
Surveys the techniques and functions of identifying manuscripts produced by the same scribe (especially manuscripts relating to Chaucer and Gower) and calls for a digital archive of known hands to help identify related manuscripts.

Alternative Title
New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays from the 1998 Harvard Conference.

Chaucer Subjects
Manuscripts and Textual Studies.